Staff Report with Final Results: Texas State Board of Pharmacy Page: 22
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June 2017 Sunset Advisory Commission
up to 90 days late and twice the normally required renewal fee for renewing 91 days to one year late.
This recommendation would also promote fairness by ensuring the board applies late fees equally to
technicians and pharmacists.
2.3 Clarify statute to authorize the board to delegate tasks to the executive director.
This recommendation would clearly allow the current practice of the executive director entering into
consent orders on the board's behalf. This best practice improves efficiency by allowing the executive
director to handle routine enforcement matters that do not require the board's attention.
2.4 Clarify statute to require the board to develop continuing education standards for
pharmacy technicians.
This recommendation would ensure the board has proper statutory authority for existing rules creating
a system of continuing education requirements for pharmacy technicians, and would protect the public
by ensuring pharmacy technicians remain competent.
2.5 Authorize the board to deny renewal applications from noncompliant applicants.
This recommendation would authorize the board to deny renewal for licensees and registrants who are
noncompliant with an existing board order, giving the board a standard tool to better protect the public.
Management Action
2.6 The board should remove requirements that renewal forms be notarized.
Under this recommendation, the board would no longer impose the burdensome requirement that
pharmacy license renewal forms be notarized. Current provisions of the Penal Code that make falsifying
a government record a crime would continue to apply to license renewals.
2.7 Direct the board to query a national disciplinary database before license renewal.
This recommendation would direct the board to verify that a pharmacist has not had a license suspended,
revoked, canceled, or subject to an action that prohibits the person from practicing pharmacy in another
state by searching the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy database, allowing the board to better
protect the public by ensuring licensees are not subject to disciplinary orders in other states. The board
would have flexibility in implementing this recommendation to ensure checking the database does not a
unduly disrupt the online license renewal process.
Fiscal Implication
Overall, these recommendations would not have a significant Texas State Board of Pharmacy
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clarify current practice or change procedures in ways that do not
require additional resources. However, the modification of the
late renewal penalty structure for pharmacy technicians would
result in a small loss of revenue to General Revenue. Based on
the number of technicians who renewed late in fiscal year 2015,
requiring a decreased late renewal fee would result in a loss of
approximately $36,000 annually.
2 2 Texas State Board of Pharmacy Staff Report with Final Results
Issue 2Fiscal Loss to the General
Year Revenue Fund
2018 $36,000
2019 $36,000
2020 $36,000
2021 $36,000
2022 $36,000I
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Ogle, Steven; Schiff, Tamara; Hartley, Cee & Teleki, Katharine. Staff Report with Final Results: Texas State Board of Pharmacy, report, June 2017; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1033475/m1/46/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.